Converting Time in UTC to Pacific time

Question

I get a string from a external method with a time and date like so \"07/09/10 14:50\" is there any way I can convert that time in ruby to \'Pacific US\' time knowin

Answer 1

To convert from string form to a date or time object you need to use strptime

require 'date'
require 'time'

my_time_string = "07/09/10 14:50"
to_datetime = DateTime.strptime(my_time_string, "%m/%d/%y %H:%M")    

utc_time = Time.parse(to_datetime.to_s).utc
pacific_time = utc_time + Time.zone_offset("PDT")

puts utc_time
puts pacific_time

This is pure ruby, so there are likely some rails-specific methods you could use specifically for this task, but this should get you started.